Black Cats & Four-Leaf Clovers by Harry Oliver

Newfoundland audiences are smart, but also they like that cheeky, saucy stuff. Johnâs crowd because they were so tuned in and they got all the jokes. Johnâs.Why?I was in a sketch comedy troupe called The Dance Party of Newfoundland, and we toured around the country and performed in New York and Chicago - but always the favourite audience of all was the St. I redid math and I also did woodworking, and I spent my free time hanging out in the music room trying to learn to play the piano. I was failing Level 3 math and I had to do the year over again to get my marks up. Whatâs your favourite time killer? Iâll play guitar or a video game.Name something few people know about you.I had to do an extra year of high school. What do you have to do to make your mother laugh? I got to make somebody else laugh, and then sheâll laugh, too. I have to give you three: Trinity Bay, Costa Rica and Vancouver IslandName a food or drink you look forward to enjoying when you get back home.A can of Pineapple Crush. âWhat?â What I mean is, is there something wrong or off in the wording that makes what Iâm saying sound weird? Just meaning, does it need to be reworded? Makes perfect sense to me. Do you ever find that your Newfoundland accent or a certain turn of phrase confuses those you work with either on Still Standing or Murdoch Mysteries? Sometimes Iâll ask if something ârings queer.â âDoes that ring queer to you?â And they are like. But up here in Toronto you need to be there by 8 p.m. Everybody started piling in around midnight and by three in the morning, it was really getting going. Johnâs in my early twenties, and if your band went on before midnight it was awful because there was nobody there yet. I donât show up at a bar until after midnight. One way another Newfoundlander could pick you out of a crowd.Thatâs easy. Are you a cat or dog person? Oh, Iâm fond of both, but dogs mostly because I have one. So The Once or Mark Bragg, or Sherman Downey maybe. What about if you are feeling social while you are back home? Iâll go see a band that I havenât seen in a while. It passes through my momâs backyard in Pouch Cove, and I like to go for a hike down there and down through Shoe Cove.

Get to know comedian, actor, host Jonny Harris When you get back to Newfoundland, what is something you make sure you fit in?Going for a walk down on the East Coast Trail.

Black Cats & Four-Leaf Clovers by Harry Oliver